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Volkswagen to Expand Test Track at Chattanooga

With the arrival of its new three-row SUV, Volkswagen is looking to grow its test track. The expansions will include a new figure eight course and a brake-test hill, reports The Chattanooga Times Free Press.

The additions are being made to test the seven-seat SUV’s all-wheel-drive features that hadn’t been necessary with the Passat.

Some expansions, though, are just being made to accommodate more vehicles.

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“We are extending the existing rattle track, which is used to verify quality standards on completed vehicles, to accommodate testing needs for the new midsize SUV,” plant spokesperson Scott Wilson told the Times Free Press.

The track will be located next to an Enterprise South industrial plant, which is close to where Volkswagen already parks vehicles that are waiting to be shipped to dealers.

Wilson denied, though, that the new track is associated with Volkswagen’s new engineering and planning center.

Volkswagen hasn’t revealed how much the track will cost, because the project was under bidding recently, but VW will receive incentives from Chattanooga, Hamilton County, and Tennessee.

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